Barring some unforeseen development -- a deeply justifiable act of propaganda by the deed, for example, or the revelation that he thinks Marine Todd is a big sissy Mary -- Donald Trump will be the Republican nominee. Less than a week after dragging Carly Fiorina back out for another round of public humiliation, anti-human ...

The mid- and late 2000s were an especially rich time for the comedy of failure. Perhaps it was the fact that we'd suffered a blow to our sense of national invulnerability that led us to elect a shit-talking faux-cowboy millionaire who reintroduced us to the concept of a pointless war we couldn't get out of; perhaps it was ...

The Funny Names Foundation has often faced accusations of excessive focus on each year's new crop of professional athletes, while ignoring the rich historical vein of people in sports-related support positions who, while not necessarily athletes themselves, still have names that sound like they should instead have been a po ...